Canadian Heritage committee  That's a good question. Thank you. I think the numbers, the percentages, and the back-and-forth between our sector and the education sector get very confusing. The simple thing in my mind is that the lack of a tariff or a licence for copying breaks the marketplace. Before 2012

Canadian Heritage committee  It's important to recognize that the copyright staff are administering a policy that the Federal Court has said is unfair. What they're doing is, in an arbitrary way, saying to their population of students and instructors, “You can use this much for free.” They're enforcing what

Canadian Heritage committee  It's better in Quebec. Quebec is a stronger provincial supporter of its cultural industries and artists. At the moment, schools, colleges and universities are all licensed in the province of Quebec. That means if my work is copied in Quebec, I get paid. Outside of Quebec, almost

Canadian Heritage committee  That's a really important question. When you start talking about copyright, it quite quickly gets into detail. For a small company like mine, trying to track small individual users in colleges, universities and K-12 schools across the country, monitoring for infringement, monit

Canadian Heritage committee  Very quickly, we lose the opportunity to sell original resources as well as to license.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thanks very much for the question. Two simple parts should be answered. One is that, as John Degen alluded to, many years have gone by since the education sector abandoned its collective licences. The direct revenues from those licences are now in arrears by about $150 million.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thanks very much, Mr. Simms.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm speaking today for the Association of Canadian Publishers, or ACP, where I serve as a voluntary board member. Before I go on, I want to acknowledge on this National Indigenous Peoples Day that I'm very grateful to be joining you from Amiskwacîwâskahikan